[Pdns-users] pdns cannot handle large pdns notify

[Jackson Yap]

Dear All,

Another important discovery. I realised after a new zone is added, pdns
notify will always missed out this new zone. Until I restart pdns and
force the notify again. Can someone advise if there is any issue or is
this a bug?

pdns_control list-zones
All zonecount:565

root at pdns-source [~]# pdns_control notify '*'
Added 564 MASTER zones to queue

root at pdns-source [~]# service pdns restart
Restarting PowerDNS authoritative nameserver: stopping and waiting..done
Starting PowerDNS authoritative nameserver: started

root at pdns-source [~]# pdns_control notify '*'
Added 565 MASTER zones to queue

Warmest Regards,
Jackson Yap

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson Yap <jackson at apc.sg>
Sent: Friday, 27 December 2019 12:39 pm
To: 'Otto Moerbeek' <otto at drijf.net>
Cc: 'pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com' <pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com>
Subject: RE: [Pdns-users] pdns cannot handle large pdns notify

Dear All,

We make an important discovery, but we don't know the reason why.

When we do pdns notify *, we checked through all the logs in source server
in /var/log/messages, we realised the domain example.com was not send out
at all.
If we just do pdns notify example.com, it will be sent out.

Then we count the logs:
root at pdns-source [~]# pdns_control notify '*'
Added 563 MASTER zones to queue

But we realised "example.com" was nowhere in the logs as well.

grep "example.com" /var/log/messages (returns nothing).

Any idea why?

Warmest Regards,
Jackson Yap

-----Original Message-----
From: Otto Moerbeek <otto at drijf.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 December 2019 6:25 pm
To: Jackson Yap <jackson at apc.sg>
Cc: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] pdns cannot handle large pdns notify

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 12:03:04AM +0800, Jackson Yap wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are using pdns version 4.1.13.

So you have the basic improvements. You might try updating one of your
slaves to 4.2.1 and see if things improve. Otherwise maybe pace the
notifies by a simple shell scrip *and* reallize missing a notify is not a
critical error since slave servers check periodically (SOA refrsh
interval) to see if they need to update.

	-Otto